Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

Unit Code BN208

Unit Title Networked Applications

Assessment Type

Individual Assignment #01 (T3_2017)

Assessment Title

Network Management and Services

Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)

This assignment assesses the following Unit Learning Outcomes; students should

be able to demonstrate their achievements in them.

b. Apply socio-technical contexts in modern network applications and

management;

c. Utilise common and emerging types of middleware to design and

manage networked applications;

Weight 15%

Total Marks 50

Word limit 1000 – 1200

Due Date 5 January, 2018 (23:55)

PowerPoint demonstration during the lab time.

Submission Guidelines

 All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a title

Page.

 The assessment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body)

font and 2.54 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate

section headings.

 Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed

appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.

Extension  If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration

Application must be submitted directly to the School’s Administration Officer,

in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You must submit this

application three working days prior to the due date of the assessment.

Further information is available at:

http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-

procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment

Academic Misconduct

 Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of

the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion

from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves

familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:

http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-

procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-Policy-

Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity

Section in your Unit Description.

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Assignment #01 Description

Instructions:

Students have to select ONE topic each from (Table-1 and Table-2). Read four or more articles about

each topic. These articles can be from the web, books or journals. There are numerous web sites

available that discuss Network Management and Services. You are expected to list your sources of

information at the end of your report.

  • Task 1

From Table -1, select ONE topic and write a report covering and detailing the areas to be explored

including deployment and performance issues of an application, configuration issues, network

growth, centralized management etc.

  • Task 2

From Table -2, select ONE topic and prepare a Power Point presentation. The presentation should

have at least 10 slides and students should present for 8 -10 minutes.

Further instructions:

  • Do not copy and paste, all slides and the report materials have to be written in your own words.

  • Do not use Wikipedia as neither source nor reference.

  • Read 2 or 3 articles from the web, books, journals, etc for each topic then rewrite it using

your own words.

  • Use IEEE style referencing, and be sure and properly reference any diagrams/ graphics.

  • Build on the topics that we discuss in lecture and labs in BN208.

Submissions:

Students has to submit only one word document on Moodle which includes task 1 and task 2.

At the end of task 1, copy the slides from task 2 and paste it into the same document then upload it

on Moodle.

Table -1 Choose any ONE Topic.

S.no Topic Areas to be explored for a topic

1 IP Phone for IT

Organisations

 A technical overview of the topic.

 Background and related areas.

 Deployment and performance issues, Configuration issues

 Reliability and Availability of an application, Security issues

 The significance of the topic to present and future networked

applications.

 Benefits, drawbacks, advantages, disadvantages, remaining problems

and limitations

 Socio-technical aspects of such applications

2 IP Surveillance

Cameras

3 H.323 Signalling

Protocol

4 Cisco Discovery

Protocol (CDP)

BN208 Networked Applications Page 3 of 4 Table -2 Choose any ONE Topic.

S.no Topic Areas to be explored for a topic

1 Platform as a Service

(PaaS)

Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud

Architecture for PaaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and

performance issues, Centralized Management, Provide examples related

to Networked Application Management (NAM).

2 Software as a Service

(SaaS)

Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud

Architecture for SaaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and

performance issues, Centralized Management, Provide examples related

to Networked Application Management (NAM).

2 Infrastructure as a

Service (IaaS)

Explore Cloud Computing resources, Application Development, Cloud

Architecture for IaaS, Service availability, Scalability, Deployment and

performance issues, Centralized Management, Provide examples related

to Networked Application Management (NAM).

Marking criteria:

Example of marking criteria is shown in following table. Marks are allocated as follows:

Note: The marking criteria varies for each Assessment

Sections to be included in

the report

Description of the section Marks

Introduction Outline of the report (in 3-4 sentences) 5

Identification Areas to be explored for the topic 10

Reporting The quality of the report (style), images and diagrams

Grammar and Syntax check

5

Conclusion Write summary of the report 5

Reference style Follow IEEE reference style for both report and presentation 5

PowerPoint presentation The presentation evaluation will be based on:

  • Quality of materials

  • Presenters knowledge of the topic

  • Time management

  • Level of clarity

  • Level of organization

4

4

4

4

4

Total 50

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Marking Rubric for Assignment #01: Total Marks 50

Grade Mark

HD 40-50

DI 35-44

CR 30-34

P 25-29

Fail <25

Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Introduction

/5

All topics are pertinent and covered in depth. Ability to think critically and source material is demonstrated

Topics are relevant and soundly analysed.

Generally relevant and analysed.

Some relevance and briefly presented.

This is not relevant to the assessment topic.

Identification

/10

Demonstrated excellent ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately. Clarity and supported materials for the technical content

Demonstrated excellent ability to think critically but did not source reference material appropriately

Demonstrated ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately

Demonstrated ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately

Did not demonstrate ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately

Reporting

/5

Logic is clear and easy to follow with strong arguments

Consistency logical and convincing

Mostly consistent logical and convincing

Adequate cohesion and conviction

Argument is confused and disjointed

Conclusion

/5

An opinion which can stand for scientific strong arguments

Consistency logical and convincing

Mostly consistent logical and convincing

Adequate cohesion and conviction

Argument is confused and disjointed

Reference style

/5

Clear styles with excellent source of references.

Clear referencing style

Generally good referencing style

Sometimes clear referencing style

Lacks consistency with many errors

PowerPoint presentation /20

All evaluation points have been covered deeply

one point was missing or has not covered

Overall knowledge and presentation was above average

Basic knowledge has been presented

Poor demo. Shallow materials and knowledge.


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